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Fresh of her Academy Award win for Best Actress, Emma Stone (La La Land) hits the court with Academy Award nominee Steve Carell (Foxcatcher) in Battle of the Sexes, the true story of the 1973 tennis match between world number one Billie Jean King (Stone) and ex-champ and serial hustler Bobby Riggs (Carell). The film is directed by Jonathan Dayton and ...

The official full trailer for Pablo Larraín’s JACKIE, starring Academy-Award winner Natalie Portman is here. Larraín’s first English-language film takes a piercing look at one of the most tragic moments U.S. history, the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, and does so with bracing intimacy and a never-before-seen point of view, from Jackie Kennedy herself. The trailer lays out the ...

It’s time for a new round of AwardsWatch forum Oscar poll results! As always the numbers represent the percentage of total voters choosing that film, director or performance to be nominated and we’re going to look to June to see that, while Sony Pictures Classics’ Foxcatcher is retaining its #1 spot in Best Picture predictions, the trailer for Fox Searchlight‘s Birdman has ...

Welcome to a new Awardswatch series, Worst Picture/Best Picture from the mind of Jeff Beachnau. In 1929, the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences had their first awards, giving statues to the best films of the year. Since then, every year a sole film is awarded the Best Picture. In 1981, publicist John J. B. Wilson held the first ...